Our Plan to save lives and build a world-class health system:
- Rapidly increase Queensland’s ICU bed capacity from 802 to 3,500, to match Victoria’s new ICU bed ratio to population in response to the COVID-19 crisis.
- Provide face-masks and hand sanitizer free to all Queenslanders by rapidly establishing a string of public factories to mass produce personal protective equipment. Forcibly acquire any suitable existing factory capacity to speed this process up.
- Free flu vaccine for all Queenslanders to help take pressure off our health system.
- Bring all private hospitals in Queensland into public hands to stop profit gouging and expand our public health system.
Federal Greens' people-first response to COVID-19:
- A roof over everyone's head – stronger protection for mortgage-holders and renters with access to mortgage holidays and rent holidays, increases to Centrelink Rent Assistance and emergency housing for people experiencing homelessness.
- 80% wage subsidies for all workers - just like in the UK. 2 weeks sick leave for the 3.6 million casuals and other workers without leave entitlements and nation-wide extension of workers compensation to cover COVID-19.
- Raise the DSP and Carers payment - disabled people and people receiving a carers allowance are currently excluded from the stimulus package. Faced with rising costs, and already extremely high levels of poverty It is unacceptable that disabled people have been excluded.